Institutional File Storage Services: Features and Pricing

EITS offers three different options of Institutional File Storage (IFS) services to the University of Georgia community on a cost-recovery basis; each designed to meet the diverse business needs of the campus.

Standard Institutional File Storage: Key Features 

  • Intended for use by University of Georgia units needing to store and share files within the same business unit or collaborators in other University of Georgia units.
  • Minimum required initial purchase of 50GB
  • Increases or decreases can be requested in 50GB increments
  • Service cancellations require 90-day notice from the client
  • Backup restorations will incur additional charges at EITS hourly rate
  • Data migrations performed by EITS to and from this service will incur additional charges

Secure Institutional File Storage: Key Features

  • Intended for use by University of Georgia units needing to store and work with restricted data within the same business unit or partners in other University of Georgia units.
  • Given the nature of data being worked on within this service, access will be restricted to SecureVDI sessions that can ensure data exfiltration requirements can be satisfied.
  • Minimum required initial purchase of 50GB
  • Increases and decreases can be requested in 50GB increments
  • Clients must also procure and utilize SecureVDI instances to access this service
  • Service cancellations require a 90-day notice from the client
  • Backup restorations will incur additional charges at EITS hourly rate
  • Data migrations performed by EITS to and from this service will incur additional charges

Research Institutional Files Storage: Key Features

  • Specifically intended for use by the University of Georgia research community.
  • A backup and archival storage target for research data. 
  • It is not designed for active collaboration of shared data, as it has a different underlying infrastructure and backup schedule than the other two IFS services.
  • Minimum required buy-in purchase of 1TB
  • Increases and decreases can be requested in 1TB increments
  • Service cancellations require a 90-day notice from the client
  • Backup restorations will incur additional charges at EITS hourly rate
  • Data migrations performed by EITS to and from this service will incur additional charges

Pricing 

Support

Tier 1: EITS Help Desk, (706)542-3106
Tier 2: Ashley Henry, IT Senior Manager, ashenry@uga.edu 

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